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Hallsworth Fellow @uomsociology.bsky.social Indian indenture, "labour" migration, race and diaspora. research.manchester.ac.uk/en/person…

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Manuela Latchoumaya @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm very happy to return to the department as a Hallsworth Fellow, here I will be conducting my first independent project, and contributing to @ethnicityuk.bsky.social 's larger research agenda!!
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pubs for the People book events @manchesterup.bsky.social 📍London, Glasgow, Nottingham, Manchester and Brighton (more to come in 2027) Come one, come all manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/
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Manuela Latchoumaya @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New paper out! doi.org/10.1111/1468... It sets the scene for my upcoming research fellowship at @uomsociology.bsky.social @ethnicityuk.bsky.social, which will explore the race+class legacies of Indian indenture across former French/British colonies/issues w the concepts of "free" migration+labour.
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Theorising Indo‐Caribbean Identities Beyond the Homeland/Hostland Binary: Indo‐Guadeloupeans’ ‘Archipelagic Brown Consciousness’
Indo-Caribbean groups, who settled in the Caribbean via the colonial system of Indian indentured labour, have long been marginal in discussions of diaspora and Caribbeanness. This paper explores how ...
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Cancelled Futures is officially out today w/ @princetonupress.bsky.social Launch next Wednesday hosted by @sprc-ucl.bsky.social & @uclsociology.bsky.social at UCL I'll be chatting to @lukedenoronha.bsky.social and @alexkelbert.bsky.social about the book Tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cancelled-...
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Cancelled Futures: Class, Race & Place in Post-Industrial Britain 16th September at UCL I'll be talking race, class & place with @alexkelbert.bsky.social & @lukedenoronha.bsky.social Hosted by @uclsociology.bsky.social & @sprc-ucl.bsky.social Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cancelled-...
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Big thanks to everyone who came down to the summer school over the last couple of days, and to @thesociologicalreview.org for their support.... not to mention all the speakers who donated their time for free! See you all next year (or a bit sooner).
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Just over two weeks to the summer school in South London Feat some amazing speakers and free lunch! Supported by @thesociologicalreview.org www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...
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Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents
Summer School on class, culture and discontents.
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (focus on race, ethnicity, intersecting inequalities) @uomsociology.bsky.social 4 years from 1 Oct 2026, £42,254 p.a., full time Closing date: Weds 17 June 2026 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Lecturer in Sociology:Oxford Road
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Organising this summer school with support from @thesociologicalreview.org 🚨Class, Culture & Discontents 📍23rd & 24th July 🏫 Balham, South London 🧑‍🍳 Free lunch Great line-up of speakers on a wide range of topics, come one, come all Free tickets ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...
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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
My book is out today! Based on long-term ethnographic research in the Czech city of Ostrava, it theorises the link between political economy & anti-Roma racism. It offers a critique of the low-cost labour regime, which is the backbone of Czech manufacturing production tinyurl.com/ymvf6kby
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Manchester University Press - Surplus lives under racial capitalism
Surplus lives under racial capitalism - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Surplus lives under racial capitalism by Barbora Cernusáková
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🎉 The #BJS2026 conference kicks off today at @lsesociology.bsky.social. We’re delighted to welcome 300+ sociologists from around the world for two days of lively debate and cutting‑edge research across over 80 sessions including panels, special forums and keynotes 🌍
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Dr. Zihuan Zhang @zihuanzhang.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Thank you ERS for publishing and posting my new article!
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
My new book Cancelled Futures is out with @princetonupress.bsky.social September 8th Based on 62 interviews with working-class youth living in East London, Rochdale & Morecambe it examines how race, class, gender and place shape how young people envision their transition to work shorturl.at/hVEL7
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Cancelled Futures
How race, class, gender, and place shape the ways working-class young people in Britain envision their transition from education to work
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
3 days, 15 streams, 700 presentations, our annual conference is our biggest UK sociology event – this year on the theme of 75 Years of Sociology #britsoc26
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
My latest article in Social Science History revisits the toppling of two controversial statues in Virginia and Martinique. I argue that statue topplings are not shots fired in a 'culture war', but a response to a longer crisis of historical subjectivity. doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
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Setting Empire in Stone: Commemoration and the Crisis of Historical Subjectivity | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
Setting Empire in Stone: Commemoration and the Crisis of Historical Subjectivity
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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Surplus Lives: Out on the 28 April manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181855/ The book builds an argument that the introduction of capitalism in the 1990s Czechia overlapped with the rise of racialised disposability of Roma workers. @manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
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Manchester University Press - Surplus lives under racial capitalism
Surplus lives under racial capitalism - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Surplus lives under racial capitalism by Barbora Cernusáková
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Next week! #Identities online event, in collaboration with Stuart Hall Archive Project at University of Birmingham The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing, and the Afterlives of Community www.eventbrite.co.uk... Stuart Hall Foundation @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgcp.bsky.social
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
SEMINAR: 🗣️'Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism' - Alison Phipps 📅1-2.30pm, 23 April 2026 📌Hybrid (Manchester and online) events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5d5908...
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Pubs for the People by me & Vallu is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social in October. On how the pub can be salvaged as a space for the Good Life that goes beyond boring ideas of White England. A bargain at £18.99 in hardback (cant even get 3 pints for that!) www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-fo...
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The launch of 'The Modern World After Colonialism', a @brisunipress.bsky.social textbook developed from the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project resources 📍March 4th 2026, 11am, Zoom @sumingkhoo.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social @thesociologicalreview.org bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ...
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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · 10/02/2026
The publishing process as an ECR can feel uncertain. We’ve created a hub that covers everything from submission to decision with guidance on peer review, article prep, and advice from our community. Demystify the journey and submit with confidence. think.taylorandfrancis.com/ers-early-ca...
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ERS ECR Content Hub
Ethnic and Racial Studies is the leading international journal for the analysis of the role of race, racism, ethnicity, migration and forms of ethno-nationalism. These social phenomena are at the…
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Still time to register for our annual lecture this Thursday: Bridget Anderson shares her research on migration and citizenship 👇🏾
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026: ‘Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship’ Prof Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol) 📅 3.30–5pm, Thurs 12 Feb 2026 @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/university...
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Dharmi Kapadia comments in this piece on the barriers faced by people from minority ethnic groups as they seek help for gambling addiction. @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/i-didn...
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'I didn't know where to turn': Why ethnic minorities with gambling addictions struggle to get help
Research has shown that people from ethnic minorities are less likely to gamble than their white counterparts - but are more likely to suffer harm from gambling and less likely to seek help.
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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · 01/12/2025
Check out this #ERSNew #OpenAccess paper below: doi.org/10.1080/0141...
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Young people in museums: representation, anti-racism, and poetry as pedagogy
Museums in the UK perpetuate inequalities through colonial collections, problematic artefact narratives and institutional whiteness. Within this context, young people from racialised backgrounds re...
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🚨 Just over 1 week to go until this year's annual Sociology Symposium! 📅 3 Dec 12.30-4pm 📍 Williamson Bldg 4.08, UoM ☕ Refreshments provided Join us for an afternoon of discussion, debate, and discovery!
Event poster with list of speakers and titles:

Alice Swift: Transformatory Experiences of Success and Failure in the Diffusion of the Climate Camp Tactic Across Europe.

Lidia Yáñez Lagos: From Project to Process: Tracing a Recursive Inquiry into Memory, and resistance to Repression in Chile’s Social Uprising.

Jan Mueller: The Perceived Feasibility of Working Time Transformation and the Ideal Worker Norm: 
Insights on Barriers to Supporting the Four Day 
Week from Organisational Vignettes.

Shirley Zhang: The Paradox of AI Intimacy: Dreaming Girls 
and the Emotional Agency of AI in China.

Elle Shea: From Structure to Sentiment: 
Rethinking Class through Intimacy.
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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
My book *Surplus lives under racial capitalism: Roma in post-socialist Czechia* will be out in April 2016. Drawing on a long-term ethnography, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social tinyurl.com/y33k947p
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Out in April 2026, published by Manchester University Press! Surplus lives is a pioneering study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe. Drawing the link between political economy, anti-Roma… | ...
Out in April 2026, published by Manchester University Press! Surplus lives is a pioneering study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe. Drawing the link between political economy, anti-Roma rac...
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
FABER LECTURE: Pigeonholed: Creative freedom as an act of resistance - Gary Younge 📅 Thurs 16 Oct 2025 7pm 📍Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester 🎫Tickets & more info on Faber website @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social www.faber.co.uk/product/uom-...
Portrait of Gary Younge and Faber members logo and 10th anniversary badge
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
📝Not white, not seen: study uncovers France’s racial blind spot New research from @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social writing in @ersjournal.com @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/s...
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Faculty of Humanities @uomhums.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
What if you had a French passport, spoke true French, but were never seen as truly French? Research, led by Manuela Latchoumaya from @manchester.ac.uk, explores the lived experiences of French people whose families come from former French colonies. Listen here👇 youtube.com/shorts/TWZES...
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Meet the expert: Manuela Latchoumaya
YouTube video by The University of Manchester- Faculty of Humanities
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
New paper for @bjsociology.bsky.social exploring how working-class young people in London, Rochdale & Morecambe associate university with risk due to debt (deterring some), but also potential reward in terms of grad premium, and crucially, dignity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Managing Risk & Seeking Dignity: Working‐Class Perceptions of University in London, Rochdale & Morecambe
This paper examines how working-class young people enroled at college in London, Rochdale and Morecambe perceive of university. It argues that university represents a great risk, associated with high...
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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · 18/06/2025
#ERSNew🐣🔓 By exploring the experiences of French citizens of Indian descent, this article advances our understanding of racialisation processes and racial formation in colour-blind contexts. Article by @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social‬ : doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2513376
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Manuela Latchoumaya @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
My piece for @ersjournal.com is out! I explore how French people of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France, are racialised through anti-Blackness + variations of Orientalism, and how my participants negotiate this. @ethnicityuk.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
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Negotiating the boundaries of Blackness and naming whiteness: the racialisation and identity formation process of French citizens of Indian descent
This article explores the racialisation and identity formation process of French citizens of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France. To do so, it centres the voices of two groups with conn...
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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · 29/05/2025
Negotiating the boundaries of #Blackness and naming #whiteness: The racialisation and identity formation process of #FrenchCitizensOfIndianDescent Author: Manuela Pauline Latchoumaya The University of Manchester Coming soon! #Frenchness #Racialisation #identityFormation
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
SEMINAR. Please join us online or in person (Manchester) 📌Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy 🗣 @drsuriyah.bsky.social Cardiff University 📆 4.30-6pm Mon 19 May events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:... @manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Our next seminar: ‘Unhelpful & redundant’? Identity, inequality & the BAME controversy 🗣Brett St Louis 📆1pm, Thurs 10 April 2025 (Manchester/online) @uomsociology.bsky.social @identitiesjournal.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unhelpful-...
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‘Unhelpful and redundant’? Identity, inequality and the BAME controversy
Brett St Louis shares his research on the contentious issue of labelling ethnic categories.
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🗣 The Moss Side "joint enterprise" case and miscarriage of justice concerns in the criminal trial system - @david_conn 📆3-4pm, Weds 19 Mar 2025, Uni of Manchester All welcome. Pls share🙏🏾 events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Our next seminar: 'Free yourself: research, politics & doing (your) right thing' 🗣Dr Yunis Alam 📆1-2.30pm Thurs 20 Feb 2025 (Manchester/Online) @uomsoss.bsky.social @identitiesjournal.bsky.social @ersjournal.com @uomsociology.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-yours...
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Free yourself: research, politics and doing (your) right thing
Yunis Alam shares his research on insider research, ethnography and the extent to which research can be a political venture.
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Short piece with @jameskneale.bsky.social & Vallu for Points History summarising (and expanding) arguments we made for @ejcs-journal.bsky.social With some brief family history! The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’ 🔗👇🏽 www.pointshistory.org/post/the-des...
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The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’
This essay examines the racialized history of British pubs in the context of contemporary laments about declining numbers of pubs.
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
THIS THURSDAY (23 JAN): we're excited to host Olivia Wyatt speaking on Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78. Hybrid session, please sign up online in advance or come along on Thursday! www.history.ac.uk/events/carib...
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Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Our next seminar is from Ajmal Hussain, Thurs 16 Jan. Join us online/in person 👇🏾
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Powerful front page from L'Humanité on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French far right leader, died today. If you wonder how many French people feel about that, these are the scenes of celebration on the streets of Paris this evening. One sign reads “The dirty racist is dead”. (🎥 Luc Auffret)
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
SEMINAR 📌Leaving being ‘left behind’: itineraries of operation & resistance in a post-industrial English city 🗣Dr Ajmal Hussain 📆1-2.30pm, Thurs 16 January 2025 (hybrid - all welcome) @uomsociology.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leaving-be...
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Leaving being ‘left behind’:itineraries of operation & resistance in Stoke
Ajmal Hussain shares his research on race and class in Stoke-on-Trent, popularly known as the 'Brexit Capital of England'
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Follow @ethnicityuk.bsky.social folk with our starter pack: go.bsky.app/JVeXtKu
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
📽WATCH: 'Back to Black? Identity politics in treacherous times' Claire Alexander's lecture to mark the 30th anniversary of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZfH...
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Identities 30th Anniversary Lecture: Back to Black? Identity Politics in Treacherous Times
YouTube video by Identities Journal
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